Skills You Already Have,
Careers You Haven't Considered
Your personal space to audit your skills, map your possibilities, and build your path forward with confidence.
HOW TO USE THIS WORKBOOK
Approach every section with genuine openness. The most valuable discoveries often come from the questions that feel most uncomfortable.
Be generous with yourself. This course is designed to help you see your value clearly — not modestly.
Write everything down. Your reactions, your surprises, your 'I never thought of that' moments — all of it is data.
The Skill Audit in Module 2 is the foundation of everything. Give it the most time and the most honesty.
"You are more valuable and more versatile than you think. This workbook is designed to help you finally see it."
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Before the Course Shapes Your Thinking
Before the course shapes your thinking, capture where you're starting from. These opening reflections will be one of the most interesting things to look back on when you reach the conclusion.
The Skill Blindspot Problem
This module introduces one of the most important ideas in the course: that your most valuable skills are often the ones you've stopped seeing. Use this space to begin the work of looking more clearly.
The Skill Audit — Know What You Actually Have
List every technical skill you've developed across your entire career — not just your current role. Include skills you haven't used recently but still possess.
Think back across situations where you communicated effectively, navigated conflict, built important relationships, or influenced outcomes. What underlying skills do those moments reveal?
These are the hardest to see and the most frequently underclaimed. What kinds of problems do you solve naturally? What patterns do you see that others miss? How do you think at your best?
Think broadly — beyond formal management. When have you guided, influenced, or developed others? When have you driven an outcome through people rather than alone?
Return to your Module 1 reflections. Add any additional skills those answers surface that haven't appeared above.
Which commonly overlooked skills from the module apply to you? List each one with a specific example of when you demonstrated it.
Read through your full inventory. Which skills appear across multiple categories? Which capabilities are reinforced by multiple experiences? Circle your strongest patterns and describe them here.
Mapping Skills to Surprising Career Paths
Now the real discovery begins. Use this section to map your skill clusters to the career paths that could genuinely use them — and to let yourself be surprised by what you find.
Which adjacency example from the module resonated most strongly with you — and why? What does it suggest about your own situation?
For each skill cluster below, note the career paths that produce genuine interest or curiosity. Don't filter yet — just note.
Which careers interest you here? What's the skill connection for you specifically?
Which careers interest you here? What's the skill connection for you specifically?
Which careers interest you here? What's the skill connection for you specifically?
Which careers interest you here? What's the skill connection for you specifically?
Which careers interest you here? What's the skill connection for you specifically?
Which careers interest you here? What's the skill connection for you specifically?
List every career path from this module that produced any level of genuine curiosity. Don't evaluate yet — just list. What surprises you about your own list?
Which two or three paths produce the strongest combination of genuine interest AND strong skill alignment? These are your exploration priorities.
Exploring High-Potential Adjacent Careers
This module goes deeper into the careers and fields that are most accessible to professionals with diverse backgrounds. Use this space to explore seriously — with curiosity before evaluation.
Of the fields explored in this module — consulting, project management, HR, L&D, nonprofit, entrepreneurship — which feels most naturally aligned with your skill inventory? What specifically connects?
Which emerging role — Chief of Staff, People Analytics, Customer Success, Experience Designer, DEI Strategist — most surprised you as a genuine possibility? Why?
For your top adjacent career target: Does it align with your values and strengths — or are you attracted to it primarily because you're unhappy where you are? Be honest.
What is the realistic demand for this capability in your target field? What do you know — and what do you need to find out?
Closing the Gap
You know where you want to go. Now it's time to build an honest, specific plan for getting there — with clear eyes about what's actually missing and what it will realistically take to close the distance.
For your primary adjacent career target, list your gaps below. For each one, categorize it as: genuinely disqualifying, meaningful but manageable, or less important than it appears.
For each meaningful gap, what is the most targeted, efficient mechanism for closing it? Be concrete — not what you could do, but what you will do.
What is the single most accessible low-risk testing mechanism you can pursue in the next 30 days? Name it specifically — and commit to a date.
Map your gap-closing milestones by quarter. Be realistic — this is a working plan, not a wish list.
Making Your Move with Confidence
Everything you've built in this course culminates here. This module gives you the communication tools to make your unconventional background not just understandable — but genuinely compelling.
Draft your pivot story using the four-element framework. Write it as you would say it — in natural, conversational language.
In 2-3 sentences, what is the core expertise and experience you've built? What are you genuinely excellent at?
What is the explicit link between your background and your target direction? State it directly.
Why this direction, specifically? What genuinely draws you beyond dissatisfaction with where you've been?
What do you bring to this new context that someone who has only worked within it doesn't have?
Identify your three most relevant accomplishments and rewrite each one in the language of your target field.
Write your full, prepared response to: "Why should we consider you over someone with direct experience in this field?"
Identify three specific people with whom you will have a genuine professional conversation about your target direction in the next 30 days.
Bringing It All Together
You've done the work. Now take time to capture what has shifted — and commit to the steps that will carry that shift forward into your professional life.
What is the single most valuable insight this course gave you about yourself professionally?
Which module surprised you most — and what did that surprise tell you?
What is the career you hadn't fully considered before this course — and what is one thing you will do in the next 7 days to begin exploring it in earnest?
"What three informational conversations will you have? What testing will you begin? What learning investment will you make?"
"How will you deepen early relationships? What portfolio evidence will you complete? What will you reassess?"
"How will you update your professional presence? In what contexts will you share your pivot story? What specific opportunities will you begin targeting?"
Careers You Haven't Considered
"The most valuable career you will ever build is the one that starts with an honest look at what you already have."
